Siri Hustvedt, Deborah Eisenberg, and other contemporary writers read ten stories by Sherwood Anderson
Stephen Crane, “An Episode of War”
Shangyang Fang: Hearing the “meticulous music” in contemporary American poetry
Edith Wharton, “Miss Mary Pask”
Meet S. J. Perelman, the “writer’s writer” who was audacious, original, and funny
Zora Neale Hurston, “John Redding Goes to Sea”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Oval Portrait”
Ben Yagoda: Presenting an O. Henry for the twenty-first century
Larry Lockridge: Why it’s time to reassess Mary Jane Ward’s The Snake Pit
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lees of Happiness”
O. Henry, “An Unfinished Story”
Watch: Two discussions of Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
Helen Hunt Jackson, “Echoes in the City of the Angels”
James Gordon Bennett, “The Recent Tragedy”
Happy 150th birthday, Theodore Dreiser
Video rewind: Updike and Cheever, “together again” on the small screen
